Treasured Islands Cruising The South Seas With Robert Louis Stevenson Lowell D Holmes by Lowell D. Holmes instant download after payment.

World renowned author Robert Louis Stevenson is dying. Stevenson is 38 years old, 5' 10" and weights in at 98 lbs, he's been sickly since childhood but his health has turned for the worse with a constant, bloody cough between his chain smoking of cigarettes. As a last attempt to restore himself, he and his family are taking a friend's recommendation of sailing into the South Seas to try and absorb the Polynesian environment in a desperate effort to sidestep death. They have charted the 93' schooner Casco skippered by Cpt. Bert Otis. With the Casco now as their home, they sail into the Western seas, to an uncertain resolve of the future.

However, to the amazement of all, Stevenson's health unexpectedly greatly improves. And as equally amazing both RLS and his family become enamored with the South Seas, especially the Polynesians themselves. So much so, Stevenson is more than reluctant to return. He pushes to explore deeper into more remote and wilder South Seas isles across several ships.

His travels inspire him to write and photograph his explorations. Finally finding the ideal South Seas dream isle-Samoa. Here he builds his home-Vailima. Living out the rest of his days surrounded by his devoted family and the love and admiration of his Samoan neighbors.

The author, Lowell Holmes, is a sailor, writer, anthropologist and has lived on Samoa. His approach to the RLS story is from all four angles. He writes about a literary subject viewed from an anthropologic/sailing perspective.

Treasured Islands is a book about a dying literary icon who sailed to the remotest isles of the Pacific trying to delay his death. In his search he found more than what he longed for, in the way of his renewed health, acceptance by an idyllic people, and eventually even finding his own personal island utopia.

The author has set a genial stage to allow us  to travel with and experience with Robert Louis Stevenson as he plumbs the Pacific's far corners for his own elusive South Seas dream.